fandomhigh | So You Say You Want a Revolution: Week 2, Period 3

"You all found your way back," Aly said with a teasing smile as the bell rang for the class to begin. "I'd be impressed, but I've met Fandom students before."

"Before we start, I'd like to introduce my TAs for this term - Ino Yamanaka, Rinoa Heartilly, Percy Jackson, and Nico di Angelo. Four isn't usual, I know, but we're trying something new this time around. I'd like each of the TAs to head up a small group of their classmates. When we work in teams or have small discussions, that's the group you'll be with."

She went to flip over the whiteboard to show the groups she'd set up.

*Percy Jackson
Cally
Faramir
Jason Todd
Makita

*Rinoa Heartilly
Cara
Kyle Reese
Leda
Proto

*Ino Yamanaka
Cloud Strife
Karla
Leia Organa
Shira

*Nico di Angelo
Elphaba Thropp
Katniss Everdeen
Luke Castellan

Aly glanced at the groups then back at the class. "If you hate who you're with, talk to me and - yeah, never mind. If you hate who you're with, deal with it. You don't always get to work with your friends when planning a revolution. Pull your desks together, and spend some time getting to know each other if you don't already.

"Last week we talked about the reasons why you personally would rebel against a government. What I'd like you to do today is to stay in the small groups and talk about why you - as a group - would rebel against something. You can look at it seriously or rebel against mandatory cheerleading uniforms for the whole school, but remember, revolutions aren't put together by one person. It's always a group effort. So today, let's start with that."

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Not as big as Mrs. O'Leary but Percy wondered if anything was as big as that tank of a dog. "You don't like dogs? Or just not big dogs?"

Cally propped her chin on her hand. "It isn't that I dislike her; she just has to belong to someone, doesn't she? There's even a collar and a tag, but no owner listed."

"Well, she could be a stray," Percy suggested, shrugging. "I don't know why she'd have a collar and tag if she was but sometimes people just don't want pets anymore so they let them loose. Maybe this one just found you?"

Cally had been considering that possibility herself, yes. Thus her mixed feelings about finally putting up posters to locate the owner. The first thing Percy had said distracted her from dwelling on that, though.

"That's horrible. Why would someone do that? Accept responsibility for another creature, then just abandon it."

"Hey, I don't particularly like it either but some people aren't very nice," he explained, shrugging. "People don't wanna take responsibility so they take the easy way. No consequences for them."

"I think calling them people might be generous," Cally grumbled. In theory, she was well aware that some people were ... not very nice was putting it mildly. Perhaps this horribly mundane example of that got at her so because it was so mundane.

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Percy shrugged and didn't really have an explanation. "Some people aren't good. Some people only care about themselves. And some people take the easy way out. Hopefully, that's not what happened with your dog but you can't rule it out."

Cally nodded, letting 'your dog' pass by without argument. "Regardless of where she came from, I'll say this for her: I'll never oversleep and miss my early classes."

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